Recent content by mike2016

Good to know! yea Xtalreef is a good site with good info. It is very rewarding to see stuff growing out but I hate bugs and that sort of things...i rather see some coral or plants. lol... is there any fish that will eat these pods?

are any of these bugs / pods harmful to the tank ? these things are just gross even by just looking at them.... i think my filefish maybe starving, i thought i had copepods in my tank but turned out they are anthopods, what should i do now?

yes scorpio like creature with CLAWS... sorry i was too "excited"

I know the situation about the fish.... I'm planning a much bigger tank very soon, so the fish will find a better place eventually. :) but where that thing came from? Did it just grow out of nowhere in my tank? the black one with clam is definitely not mantis shrimp, it has large clams...

I had the issue with too many copepods a while ago, now they have almost disappeared off the tank wall, but still visible on the LR and sand, and they are much bigger now. I was just looking around my tank, I noticed ALOT of shrimp like looking creatures moving FAST around dark areas, they...

Good to know! Paying a visit to the LFS this weekend! I was just so worried because they look gross when there's a mass of them crawling on my tank. My algae problem has been gone, do those things eat algae?

it's a 28G nano cube... after a 50% water change the copepods are a lot less now, but still visible. and i see some bigger ones crawling on the rocks, sand... not sure if they are the same thing.

another thing i forgot to mention, before i left, i fed some "phytoplankton" to the tank, is this the source?

the closest that matches those are "copepods", but i can't really see if they have legs or tails on them, they are just too small. there's also a star looking thing on the glass, it kind of matches "ASTERINA STARS", it just appeared recently. i have 1 clown, 1 blue tang, 1 box fish and some...

So it's ok to leave them like that? The water is so cloudy now because of these things. What causes these things to grow all of a sudden?

not sure if they are copepods, i have never seen this kind of creature in my tanks before. they are about ~1-2mm in length, very very small. smaller than ants. i have to look real close to the tank to see they are actually "live", at first i thought it was just some white spots on my tank...

HELP! Lots of maggots like / "micro bugs" like things on tank wall and in water! I just got home from a 2 day weekend trip, found my tank wall has LOTS of maggots looking / micro bugs all over, there's a lot floating in the water too. i think there might be hundreds if not thousands of them in...

I just came home and did another test on my tank, here are the results ammonia 0 / nitrate 0 / nitrite 0 Yes i used the correct color charts for fresh and salt, fresh water result was bright clear yellow. and for the tank water, it's kind of dark yellow creamy looking, not as clear. so i...

Ok i just tested my RO filtered water with the API kit, it appears brown yellow so the test kit is accurate. but that's freshwater straight out of my RO filter system. not sure what happens when i mix salt with it. could be the API isn't good for saltwater?

what's a good brand that you suggest? i've been buying aquarium supplies from LFS the selection is very limited, lately i've been looking online too